iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28 — Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple's online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10.

Are You Ready, Foursquare? Here Comes Facebook. — Okay, Dennis Crowley: Hope you've figured out the whole take-Yahoo's-money-or-not thing. Because here comes Facebook. — The social network is finally ready to start rolling out its location service this month and has linked up with McDonalds …

Android Now Running On iPhone 3G — After just a couple more weeks of work, we've made tremendous progress and brought Android to the iPhone 3G. Although this port is slightly more rough than the previous Android on first-generation iPhone port, this marks an important milestone …

Apple Needs To Fix Its App Store Spam Problem (AAPL) — Even with Apple's ham-fisted control over the App Store, it's still filled with spammy applications, notes Marco Arment, the developer behind the popular “Instapaper” app. — Case in point: Marco wanted to download a popular game called “Angry Birds” (iTunes Link).

Shop and Share with Bing — A lot of us don't shop alone. Going to the mall is often a social thing, so why should shopping online be any different? 75% of shoppers seek advice from others even when shopping online and now Bing shoppers can too! In the last announcement we refreshed …

What iPads Did To My Family — This one is most definitely off-topic, but you might find it interesting. — Last Sunday, I broke down and bought a non-3G iPad. I just was too damn curious. Walked into the Apple Store, played with it for 5 minutes, gave them my credit card, and walked out 15 minutes later.

iPhone and Android Fueling Worldwide Smartphone Growth — Sales of smartphones grew 56.7 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to new figures from IDC, far outpacing the 21.7 percent growth of the overall mobile market. Handset makers Apple and Motorola exhibited the largest growth …

Jimmy Wales plans Wikipedia porn purge — “Images that are of little or no educational value” to be excised — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has waded into a minor row brewing on the site over whether pornographic content should be hosted on Wikimedia Commons - the place where all Wikipedia images are hosted.

The Future of Reading is Open — Today, Scribd is changing the way you read documents online. Over the next few weeks and months, Scribd will convert our entire content corpus — tens of millions of documents, books and presentations — into native HTML5 web pages so that we can offer the best online reading experience.

Private APIs — I wrote a post in the Android-Developer blog today cautioning about the use of Content Providers that aren't part of the published Android API. John Gruber pounced, deducing that, contrary to our stated policy, this constituted evidence of “private APIs”. Let me explain exactly what's going on here.

CBS Will Have Full Slate of Web Video on the iPad — CBS might be the most aggressive in its plans to enable viewers to watch web video on the iPad, but so far, that doesn't amount to much. The broadcaster has a limited number of promotional clips that are viewable on the tablet device, along with one full-length episode of Survivor.

The BlackBerry Tablet - What We Know And What We Don't — To tablet or not to tablet... that is the question! — Alright, since the issue of the BlackBerry tablet seems to not be going away any time soon, we decided we'd summarize and share what information we know and what information …